Chapter 11 I can only play games

It was an ordinary summer afternoon, and the sun shone through the window of my second-floor cottage on my key-riddled keyboard. I was sitting in an old wooden chair, busy fighting enemies in a computer game. My room was a cluttered world, full of piles of comics and game CDs. The outside world seemed extraordinarily quiet at this moment, except for the sound of the breeze blowing the leaves and the song of the birds from time to time.

Downstairs in the lounge, my brother is exploring his new world. He was lying comfortably on the big couch, holding in both hands the new world he saw as a mobile phone. His face looked more and more immature in the dim light of his phone screen, and he would sometimes laugh out loud, sometimes frowning in thought. Every pixel that beats on his phone's screen represents the unknown world he's exploring.

The two of us, each immersed in their own game world. Although the games are different, we all enjoy the fun that the game brings, and enjoy the process of challenging and exploring in the virtual world. These shared feelings keep our hearts still connected.

Sometimes, he would shout out the score in his mobile game, and I would leave my game and cheer his victory. Sometimes, when I make a breakthrough in computer games, he will put down his phone and applaud me. Even though our game worlds are different, our excitement, excitement, frustration, and joy are all shared and understood by each other.

Yes, we're not separated by choosing different game worlds. We just found new pleasures and explored new possibilities in our respective worlds. We're not scientists, we're not inventors, but our love for new things and our desire to explore things excite and proud. Even though we play in different worlds, our hearts are still connected. That's our relationship, that's our brotherhood.

My brother and I spent endless hours searching for traces of new games, and our quest never stopped. In order to experience games more deeply that we can't touch for a while, we started a different kind of journey - by watching instructional videos on the Internet, to learn, to feel.

We are drawn to this world of video almost every day, every picture, every sound is so real, as if we are right there, immersed in the depths of that world. Sometimes I forget about myself in my imagination and fully integrate into that game world, as if it was my world, that brave adventurer, that all-powerful hero.

However, the computers in our house are not very high-spec and cannot run games that require high performance. It frustrated me a little bit, and I wanted to experience those games and explore the unknown worlds for myself. However, I can't stop my exploration because of this, and I can't let this get in my way.

So, I immerse myself in those game videos every day, and even though I can't experience them myself, I can see them through other people's eyes and feel them through other people's voices. I will try to feel every joy, every frustration, every determination and perseverance. I'll take those feelings and make them a part of my game.

I'm not an observer, I'm a participant, I'm an adventurer. I found myself in someone else's game world, and I found reality in that virtual world. This is my game world, this is my life.